Pinehurst Race Track

Pinehurst Race Track is a horse training and racing complex of about fifty acres on the edge of the Village of Pinehurst in Moore County. Two oval sand tracks, laid out by 1915, form its core: an inner half-mile track for trotters and pacers and an outer five-eighths-mile track for Thoroughbreds. Around them stand timber barns from the 1910s, paddocks, a farrier shop, a clubhouse, a harness shop and the Amphidrome, a stuccoed Mission-style exhibition building from about 1917. A tornado around 1937 removed two of its four corner towers and its tile roof. Leonard Tufts, who ran the resort village, developed the complex, which hosted horse racing, livestock shows and exhibitions. It is described as the oldest continuously used race track in North Carolina and became a winter training ground for young harness horses. Nineteen resources date from before 1942; fourteen later ones are non-contributing. The Village of Pinehurst purchased the site in 1992 to preserve it.